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TaliLaser was an Arabian company that brought the CD-i to the professional...
Earlier this year we showed you a first view on the TaliLaser TL-2000 CD-i player, which was a OEM model of the Philips CD-i 470 player. This was the first Arabian CD-i player that we came across. The...
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With the USB->CD-i solution, you can now use a USB keyboard + USB mouse on...
With the recent USB solution for CD-i players, CD-i member Jeffrey Janssen really managed to bring an important feature to CD-i users: To be able to use certain USB controllers on your CD-i player. The...
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Rare Video CD Records #1: "Kinder Surprise VCD"
In collaboration with the excellent Video CD Overview website by Sven we present you more and more rare Video CD's, 100% compatible with all CD-i players that have a Digital Video Cartridge installed....
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Thanks to Tecno Plus, the Philips CD-i gamepad was also available on SNES,...
The launch of the Philips CD-i did initially not include a gamepad, as the CD-i was presented as 'something different', a multimedia device that you could navigate through using the thumbstick. Soon...
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The white demo CD-i discs sometimes offer something extra: The Merlin's...
We've seen a few examples of the white demo CD-i discs offering slightly different game options compared to the original retail version. Most of the time it is about a built-in cheat function, or a...
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Join the Philips CD-i Discord server for more CD-i talk and to meet more...
Since the past two years we've been experimenting with social channels like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. That works very well and in fact it reaches far more people compared to the 'old' CD-i...
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The Italian version of Link: Faces of Evil was copyrighted by 'Dale...
The Italian version of Link: Faces of Evil was copyrighted by Dale DiSharoon Incorporated, instead of Animation Magic. Of course it is linked together as Dale DeSharone (who originally was named Dale...
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #50 - Tests Codoroute 1 (Ecolauto Diffusion, 1993)
These 'car exam' test software was widely available on CD-i by several different publishers in different countries, and according to our archive this part of business was using the CD-i format the...
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Coming soon: new scans at archive.org / discs from Blazers / discs from...
Thanks to the contributions by CD-i members Blazers, Omegalfa and the effort of Seventyy Seven you can expect to see more editions in the 'Rare CD-i Chronicles' series in the upcoming period. Seventyy...
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Another rare USA CD-i catalogue: This flyer advertises two rare CD-i...
Another rare USA CD-i catalogue: These USA flyers often contain interesting bits of CD-i info like unreleased CD-i titles, catalogue numbers and references. Thanks to these kind of folders we...
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In Jeopardy on CD-i, the host Alex Trebek was able to call you by your own...
The CD-i version of Jeopardy was developed by Accent Media and exclusively released in USA. This game has a unique feature that the host, Alex Trebek, was able to call you by name, according to...
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The Ministry of Education of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia developed in cooperation...
Thanks to CD-i member Blazers we received more info on this Knowlogy educational (professional) cd-i disc, one of a series. Blazers: "Developing 103 educational courses on CD-ROM and CD-I discs revised...
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The differences between the PAL (Europe) and NTSC (USA) copy of Chaos Control...
CD-i member Jeff Geske showed us his copies of Chaos Control and we were surprised to see the European and NTSC copy were actually more different than we expected. Some CD-i titles look totally...
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Super Game VCD 300 is a VCD featuring NES games that can be played on...
In the vein of the official Nintendo VCD's, this Super Game VCD 300 featured clips of (what it looked like in the first place) 300 NES games to promote the system, but this time it is a bootleg VCD....
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This early alpha release (version 0.90) of Tangram surfaced today, which was...
Thanks to CD-i members TwBurn and Seventy7 this pre-production alpha release of Tangram on CD-i surfaced. It was in the collection of TwBurn. What a great find! Tangram was a 1992 CD-i game by...
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'Help!' was a dutch exclusive 'Emergency Response' training on CD-i, featured...
Dutch supermarket 'Albert Heijn' has been involved in a few CD-i projects and today CD-i member Blazers shared with us a three-disc CD-i set of an Emergency Response training on CD-i, supported by...
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #51 - Discover Sport Fishing - Northern Edition
The CD-i catalogue we saw two days ago featured one of the more rare USA CD-i releases being promoted: Discover Sport Fishing: Northern Edition. It was actually released but somehow it is now on of the...
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A guideline to help you to build a USB-2-CD-i adapter (what do you need, how...
This article is a contribution by TwBurn, the author of the USB2CDi (USB to CD-i) adapter solution, by offering a software library that you can use with an Arduino. But how exactly? TwBurn explains: "A...
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Rare Video CD Records #2: "The Shoe People" (Funtime Cartoons, 1994) - and...
In collaboration with the excellent Video CD Overview website by Sven we present you more and more rare Video CD's, 100% compatible with all CD-i players that have a Digital Video Cartridge installed....
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #52 - Mathtrak for Kindergarten K1 (InterROM, 1994)
Mathtrak for Kindergarten K1 is educational learning disc made by InterROM in 1994. It was released in USA, and it is the first time we see a copy actually! It is possible this disc is one of a...
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